nfluence to what he has ever had. The
Irish journey has done this. The Duke has not the least idea of the
real state of things; but I find from him the Whigs are aware of
some change before the meeting. I cannot at all guess whether the
steps which were proposed are intended previous to the King's
departure for Hanover. He will be in town to-morrow if the wind
permits, or perhaps he may be delayed a few days. He proposed to
leave town for Hanover the 16th or 17th. He appoints Lords Justices
(not a Regency), to consist of all his Ministers, together with the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Steward and Master of the Horse,
and the Lord Chamberlain. These are to do nothing but the common
routine of business. Lord Londonderry accompanies the King abroad;
and all correspondence is to be kept up through him, and no
appointments of any sort to take place but such as absolutely
demand immediate filling up. He goes to Vienna, and Paris, and
Homburg, Munich, &c., &c.: such is his present intention. He cannot
be back till the end of November or December, and I can hardly
conceive it possible they will defer all changes till that time,
when any new members of a Government must be so ignorant of
measures just as the meeting of Parliament is about to take place.
The Duke of Wellington will be back from Paris time enough to meet
the King. _I do not believe_ one word of Lord Liverpool's going
out. He certainly has not done the thing well as to the funeral;
but the great blame is in that booby, Sir R. Baker. Lady C---- has
been living with the King at the Phoenix Park, and he has never
slept out but at Slane Castle. The Royal yacht went to Holyhead to
take her over to Dublin; the Admiralty yacht took the Princess
Augusta to Ostend. The latter does not go to Hanover; it is said
the former does. Lord Grosvenor loses upwards of 80,000_l._ by his
agent More's failure. He has two vacancies for Shaftesbury, and
brings in Mr. Ralph Leicester, of Toft, in Cheshire, and offers the
other seat to Lord Normanby. I see Canning is waiting in England
(having intended to return to France), which looks very like an
immediate arrangement. I suppose you heard that a Board of General
Officers is examining into the conduct of Sir Robert Wilson on the
14th. I think I told you this in my last.

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